With Sports Needing a Hero, Tiger Woods On Cusp Of Irrelevance

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Published: February 24, 2011

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So you and your work buddy are standing at the water cooler discussing a number of topics.

The Carmelo Anthony to New York trade. The Deron Williams to New Jersey trade. Who’s really No. 1 in college hoops. The hot new intern that just walked by.

With that, your buddy tosses his cup into the garbage can and begins the slow trek back to his cubicle when one last thing pops into your head.

“Wait! How about the fall of Tiger Woods?”

Now there’s a conversation worth having.

See, the sports world needs Tiger to be Tiger and soon because, like the hot new intern, the NBA is going to be here today and gone tomorrow when the finals conclude in June thanks to a lockout that could last forever.

Same goes for the NFL and, at some point in the near future, Major League Baseball.

This worst-case scenario would leave sports fanatics with soccer, golf, tennis and, thankfully, college sports.

I try not to imagine such a gross existence. No one cares about soccer—period. No one cares about tennis outside of the eight weeks of the year that Grand Slam events are being played.

No one cares about golf; that is unless Tiger finds his swagger.

The world isn’t out to get you, Tiger. In fact, we all want to love you again in the worst way, but you make it so difficult.

First was the whole adultery thing, where you had sex with about 174 women in 12 different nations. Then came that bogus, robotic apology last winter that only a drunk or an absolute moron took to heart. Then, the spitting incident.

The funny thing is that all of the above is forgivable in the eyes of your fans. We don’t care if you wreck your personal life. Go ahead, they’re your consequences to deal with.

We got over the apology that basically emphasized your belief that the American public is brain dead and will believe a...
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